Orientations are in an hour and fifteen minutes, and I still have to finalise my syllabus (semesterplan). Oh, it’s fine, it has been for weeks, but I’d like it to be prettier, and more informative, and better, and nicely laid out and […]

Way back when, Henry Jenkins didn’t have a weblog, which Torill and I used as an example of the way the web can invert some power relationships – with no weblog, the influential MIT professor of media and popular culture had no […]

Oy. Start of semester. Suddenly, summer is over (though not the weather, luckily) and there are a zillion things to do. My to do list is a folded sheet of paper four days deep. Switch gears!

I’m currently writing about the prehistory of blogs, and Nicholas Lemann’s article in the New Yorker last week (see also Steven Johnson’s reminder about the non has a summary of how pamphleteers a couple of centuries ago in many ways mirror blogs […]

Why does it cost less to mail a letter from the USA to Norway ($0.82 or 5,12 kr) than it costs to mail a letter from Bergen to Oslo (6,50 kr or $1.03)? For those prices, you can even put more in […]

Ooooh! I went through my inbox at the office and I’m getting a whole YEAR’S sabbatical from July 2007 through June 2008! Isn’t that totally awesome? I applied for a full year, and of course I deserve it, but I honestly only […]

While clearing the comments my spam filter thought I should moderate personally after my break, I found a dozen or so with the following sentence, followed of course by the obligatory links to poker sites: webmaster,your blog is google ! Is this […]

No posting lately. Hardly even checked my pet blog. Way too many things to do…but soon I’m on holidays, and then there are a couple of weeks of writing and then more holiday. It’s conceivable I’ll blog in there somewhere – or […]

Is it normal to check one’s own blog several times a day just in case it’s updated – even though one knows one hasn’t done a thing? I could pretend it was to see if there were any comments. But I already […]

While looking for a reading list for a student who might be doing some work on social software I came across this interesting-looking site, H2O Playlists: An H20 playlist is a shared list of readings and other content about a topic of […]